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Tang Studies
Overview of Tang Studies
Tang Studies (ISSN: 0737-5034) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication of the T'ang Studies Society. The journal is open to critical inquiry into all topics related to Tang China, but particularly encourages scholarship that is directly engaged with primary sources from the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties periods. Major disciplines regularly represented in the journal include literature, linguistics, history, religious studies, and art history. The journal welcomes submissions of original research, annotated translations, and reference notes, as well as bibliographic materials.
The journal is published annually in November for the T'ang Studies Society and mailed to current members by Johns Hopkins University Press. The electronic version of the journal and back issues are available to current members on Project MUSE: Tang Studies.
Subscription to Tang Studies
Individual Subscriptions
An individual subscription to the print and online journal is included in regular membership dues: Become a member!
Current members can access the journal online at Project MUSE after being provided with a code and login instructions: Tang Studies
Institutional Subscriptions
The Johns Hopkins University Press handles institutional subscriptions for the Society. Information can be found here: Tang Studies Institutional Subscriptions
Journal information is also available on the T’ang Studies page at the Johns Hopkins University Press website: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/tang-studies
For institutional questions or claims on volumes, please contact the Tang Studies office directly at admin@tangstudies.org.
Submission Guidelines
Submission to Tang
Studies
is not limited to members of the T’ang Studies Society. The journal welcomes submissions of original research. Manuscripts of research articles should typically be in the range of 12,000 to 15,000 words in length. The journal also publishes annotated translations, reference notes, and bibliographic materials in the area of Tang studies. Inquiries and manuscript submissions should
be sent to the Editor:
Nicholas Morrow Williams
Arizona State University
School of International Letters and Cultures
Durham Hall
PO Box 870202
Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
E-mail: editor@tangstudies.org
All submissions must carry assurance that they have been submitted exclusively to Tang Studies. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance to the guidelines set forth in the Chicago Manual of Style. They should be double-spaced (including double-space for quotations) with one-inch margins. For proper citation format in footnotes, please refer to the guidelines linked below as well as articles in earlier issues of the journal, particularly those published after volume 27 (2009). All text should be in 12-point, Times New Roman font.
Specific style guidelines are contained in the following document:
Manuscripts that do not
conform to these guidelines cannot be considered and will be returned
to
the author.
All manuscripts are evaluated in accordance with a double-blind peer-review process. Authors should not include their names on manuscripts so as to ensure blind readings from referees.
If the manuscript includes any materials (e.g., quotations that exceed fair use, illustrations, charts and/or other graphics) taken from other sources, the author must obtain permission from the copyright owners of these materials to reproduce them in print.
For further author/submission information, see the guidelines provided by our publisher, the The Johns Hopkins University Press:
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/tang-studies
Most recently updated: 04/17/2026